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I guess it is a consequence of the Reddit migration where the habit is just keeping the old community name. But having C/Politics being US only on Lemmy.world, an instance that aims to be international (hence the name), seems weird to me.

Would have been cool to give up this assumption that everything is related to US by default when moving away from Reddit. I mean, even the canadian political news of Lemmy.ca is CanadaPolitics.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's stuff that crosses boundaries though, especially when it comes to US news.

For example:

A US soldier crossed the border into North Korea and is now being held captive.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188530348/what-we-know-about-travis-king-the-u-s-soldier-who-crossed-into-north-korea

US news? World news? Both? Neither?

[–] Froody@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Neither, it is not relevant to anyone outside of the states.

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We include stories for world politics in relation to US Politics such as that one.

[–] DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a Canadian Politics community on Lemmy.World too. It's very small but that can change!

https://lemmy.world/c/canadapolitics

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[–] fernandu00@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I thought the instance name was just a name and had no meaning in that way (being international or smth) About posting about other countries ..yeah O agree that is US centric but Lemmy is a niche..way smaller than reddit is (at least in my country) so is already hard to find people from other places and specially writing about things not US related. I don't mind if this community is all about US ..when people from other places start creating their own politics communities I'll just join them.

[–] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree. US is not the only country in the world, and should not dictate a community like this. If Americans want to discuss politics they should make a com about that, and let the general /c/politics be international politics.

There is a world politics as well as other regional politics communities on our side bar. We suggest subscribing to one of those if your more interested in those arenas of political discussion.

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